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Dr. David Chandler is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London. He says of his lecture, "Human rights are held up as the defence of the weak against the strong. Universal claims, which can be raised against repressive states and to protect minorities against majorities. Many commentators argue that transnational campaigners and value-orientated actors in global civil society have established new international norms which have constrained states and even transformed their identities and interests. Are we approaching a more rights-focused global community or have human rights frameworks formalised relations of international inequality and legitimised new regimes of Great Power domination?" Dr. Chandler's research interests are in post-Cold War transformations of the international sphere at the level of both ideas and institutional practice. He is currently working on a book on the relationship between NGOs and states in international relations and co-editing a book on global civil society. He is a graduate of Manchester University, holds a LLB (Bachelor of Legal Letters/ Legum Baccalaureus) from the University of Northumbria; a master’s degree in the history of ideas, and a Ph.D. in international social policy from Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention (2002) and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton (1999, 2000), and the editor of Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002). He has contributed to many journals, including the International Journal of Human Rights, Radical Philosophy, WeltTrends: Zeitschrift für internationale Politik, Political Studies, Global Dialogue, British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Current History, Democratization, International Peacekeeping, and New Left Review. He has contributed to edited volumes including South Eastern Europe: Weak States and Strong International Support (2003), Debating Cosmopolitics (2003), and Europe in the World: The Future for EU Foreign and Development Policies (2003). He is married to Bonnie, a child and adolescent mental health worker. They have one son, Harvey, who is two-and-a-half years old, and are expecting a second boy, Oliver, later this year.
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